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Jewish women's exclusion from the public domains of religious and civil life has been reflected in their near absence in the master narratives of the East European Jewish past. As a result, the study of Jewish women in eastern Europe is still in its infancy. The fundamental task of historians to construct women as historical subjects, 'as a focus of inquiry, a subject of the story, an agent of the narrative', has only recently begun. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish women's experiences in Eastern Europe. The volume is edited by Paula Hyman of Yale University, a leading figure in Jewish women's history in the United States, and by ChaeRan Freeze of Brandeis University, author of a prize-winning study on Jewish divorce in nineteenth-century Russia. Their Introduction provides a much-needed historiographic survey that summarizes the major work in the field and highlights the lacunae. Their contributors, following this lead, have attempted to go beyond mere description of what women experienced to explore how gender constructed distinct experiences, identities, and meanings. In seeking to recover lost achievements and voices and place them into a broader analytical framework, this volume is an important first step in the rethinking of east European Jewish history with the aid of new insights gleaned from the research on gender. As in earlier volumes of Polin, substantial space is given, in 'New Views', to recent research in other areas of Polish-Jewish studies, and there is a book review section.
Contents
Note on Place Names Note on Transliteration Part I Jewish Women in Eastern Europe Introduction: An Historiographical Survey ChaeRan Freeze and Paula Hyman The History of Jewish Women in Early Modern Poland: An Assessment Moshe Rosman The Maskilot: Between Feminine and Feminist Writing? Tova Cohen Sins of Youth, Guilt of a Grandmother: M. L. Lilienblum, Pauline Wengeroff, and the Telling of Jewish Modernity in Eastern Europe Shulamit S. Magnus Women's Education in the Pages of the Russian Jewish Press Eliyana R. Adler The Call to Serve: Jewish Women Medical Students in Russia, 1872-1887 Carole B. Balin When Chava Left Home: Gender, Conversion, and the Jewish Family in Tsarist Russia ChaeRan Freeze The Lost Generation: Education and Female Conversion in Fin-de-Siecle Krakow Rachel Manekin Feminism and Fiction: Khane Blankshteyn's Role in Inter-War Vilna Ellen Kellman Feminism and Nationalism on the Pages of Ewa: Tygodnik, 1928-1933 Eva Plach Interview with Professor Jadwiga Maurer Katarzyna Zechenter Bibliography: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe Karen Auerbach Part II New Views Jewish Settlement in the Polish Commonwealth in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century Zenon Guldon and Waldemar Kowalski Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz on Polish Jewry Jakub Goldberg Translation as a Weapon for the Truth: The Bund's Policy of Multilingualism, 1902-1906 Susanne Marten-Finnis Poles in the German Local Police in Eastern Poland and their Role in the Holocaust Martin Dean Part III Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS Communist Questions, Jewish Answers: Polish Jewish Dissident Communists of the Inter-War Era Jack Jacobs On Solzhenitsyn's 'Middle Path' Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Three Books on the Lodz Ghetto Helene J. Sinnreich BOOK REVIEWS OBITUARIES Dora Kacnelson Adam Penkalla Notes on the Contributors Glossary Index
